About: Release From Heaven
2018 AWARDS: Avante Garde , Best Cinematography, Judges Choice – Best Narrative
Release From Heaven: In a war torn country, a female teacher and comic writer lives with her students in a boarding school. To calm horrified children who have no hope in our terrifying world, she keeps telling them a story every night.
Director: Ali Noori Oskouei
Country: Iran
Category: International Narrative Feature
Runtime: 01:16:00
In a war torn country, a female teacher and comic writer lives with her students in a boarding school. To calm horrified children who have no hope in our terrifying world, she keeps telling them a story every night. Stories about her childhood imaginary hero who has become a part of her life. But one night the school is attacked and destroyed so she has to accompany two of her students to find their parents. They start a journey during which she finds some signs of her imaginary hero in real world. Up until that time she thought that man who had become her hero was just a part of her stories but now with these signs, she knows that he’s real. She is determined to find him but she has big problem, she knows nothing about him.
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